Questions/comments about the AI...

Atrocities · #1 April 9th, 2003, 08:05 AM

I feeled compelled to mention that the best way to deal the AI is via "Gun Boat Diplomacy."

(For those of you who remember)

Quote:

Gryphin-

"I started my first game. The Selay Consortium just hosed a colony ship, @#%Q@#R, Then accepted a Trade Treaty.
What is it about Neutrals that shoot first and ask quesitons later?"

Atrocities-

"Its called Gun Ship Diplomacy. "

- Magnum 357 Signature.

[ April 09, 2003, 07:14: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Master Belisarius · #2 April 9th, 2003, 05:39 PM

- Think you should play with modded races, then, you will see they will send more than 1 ship at once, and will do more stellar manipulations.
- The AI can't scrap captured ships to get the technology.
- The AI use very well the planet creators, and not so well the planet destroyers.
- The AI use black hole creators and sun destroyers. Is not very smart, but they use it (I can remember a recent game played by the Tessellate, where they destroyed a system with more than 400 of their own ships there!).
- The AI use Warp Openers, but only to open holes to systems don't explored yet... then, of course never will use it like a human can do.

serpwidgets · #3 April 10th, 2003, 08:13 AM

Thanks.

I've meandered through most of the files. I've done tons of mods for all kinds of games (mostly 3dFPS levels and Quake/Unreal scripting, but also did a lot on BotF) and I always end up spending all of my time modding and not playing the game.

I'm determined to actually play a game for once, hehe. Thanks for the info, I'm sure I'll get sucked into modding anyway.

Atraikius · #4 April 11th, 2003, 01:58 AM

I think what MB was trying to say was to play the game useing races that have been already modded to perform better (i.e. TDM-Modpack races), not that you need to mod the races yourself.

Master Belisarius · #5 April 10th, 2003, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Atraikius:
I think what MB was trying to say was to play the game useing races that have been already modded to perform better (i.e. TDM-Modpack races), not that you need to mod the races yourself.

Yes I have assumed that you already knew that does exist many AI scripts modded.
Thanks Atraikius!